library research guide

MCom Training Session

How to find books & articles for your research or

what to do when fails you

Sophie van der WaltSubject Librarian:

Faculties: Economic & Financial Services Management

(011) 559 2641 sophievdw@uj.ac.za

Office hours: 7:00 – 15:30Training: By Appointment

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Your Research Process ...?

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So where is the information then?

•In journals

•using the UJ databases

•Print/Email/Save

•In text books

•look for it in the UJLink Catalogue

•16 for 30 days

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FINDING BOOKS

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Finding books in the Library

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Finding books in the Library

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Finding books in the Library

If you know the TITLE of the book,

click on the link

If you have the ISSB number of the

If you know the AUTHOR

click on the link

If you know the JOURNAL the

article was published in

The DEFAULT SEARCH is the

Keyword Search

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Finding books in the LibraryUsing the TITLE

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Finding books in the Library

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Finding books in the Library

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Articles in Databases

Click on the Databases

link

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Articles in Databases

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Articles in Databases

Management, HR management, Quality, Marketing, Operations and production, Accounting & finance, and Information Management

Business Source Premier : Marketing,

Management, MIS, POM, Accounting, Finance And

Economics.

MarketLine: Company profiles Industry Profiles; Country Profiles

Includes extensive coverage of

management, finance,

economics, and other subjects.

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Scroll down to the “B”s

Articles in Databases

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Articles in Databases

Click on Business Source Premier

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Articles in Databases

To access the databases, please enter our surname, student number and PIN

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Articles in Databases

Click on the title Business Source Premier

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Articles in Databases

Click on Advanced Search

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You can refine the results to Academic journals only, as well as to a date range

Type in your keywords (separate concepts with an AND) and click on Search

Articles in Databases

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Articles in Databases

For the full article, click on the FULL TEXT link

You can change the date range by sliding the scale

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Articles in Databases

Remember: Use the Print/Save functionality of the pdf NOT of windows

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Articles in Databases – with no full text

Click on A-Z list to see if the article is available in another database in full text

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Articles in Databases

• To find the full text of the article, go to A-Z list on the databases

•Type in your journal title

•If the library has the journal, click on the database name and it will take you directly to the journal

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Articles in Databases

Click on the year, volume & issue to access the article

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Articles in Databases

Click on the full text link

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Recap- have you fallen asleep?

•ARTICLES

UJ databases•BOOKS

•UJLinK Catalogue

Quality information available

Databases to usePass

The Library

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